Declaring that his campaign strategy is dependent on controversy, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Alan Keyes told the state’s top GOP donors at a recent closed-door meeting that he plans to make ‘inflammatory’ comments ‘every day, every week’ until the election, according to several sources at the session.

The sources said Keyes explained that his campaign has been unfolding according to plan and likened it to a war in which lighting the ‘match’ of controversy was needed to ignite grass-roots voters.

‘This is a war we’re in,’ one source recounted Keyes as saying. ‘The way you win wars is that you start fires that will consume the enemy.'”

OK. It was all planned this way — to have to make up a 40 point gap against Obama. Good deal, baby.